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Saturday, January 12 2002

Radio Crankypants #6-8

6) Where the hell is the glossary? The glossary framework is one of the single most useful things the UserLand gang has ever developed. It was in Manila and if it wasn't in older versions of Radio it should have been. I mean, look, I actually know where the glossary is but why isn't there a web interface? 7) The navigation menu should be a DHTML toolbar. I am already tired of clicking >Prefs >Templates >Home page template. And I might begin to remember what next/prev is supposed to mean, in any given context, in another six months but right now it's just laughable. Both of these things should be a trivial tasks for UserLand by now. The menus are exactly the same as building the menubars for Radio/Frontier on the fly or building, only in HTML. People have been beating on DHTML menus long enough that there really is solid cross browser, cross platform, backwards compatible code available. And the named next/prev linky widget was practically the first thing people learned how to do in Frontier 4! 8) If the CMS behind Radio is supposed to be file-system based why on earth does the file corresponding to this page look like this: 







#flHomepage true



#flArchivePage true



#archiveDate "2002/01/12"



<%radio.macros.viewWeblog ()%>

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Radio Crankypants #5 : <% aaronland.Categories () %>

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Radio Crankypants #4 : <%mirrorproject.Random ()%>

With a little help from Dave.

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Radio Crankypants #3 : Well, I got it work on an old Mac.

It appears that the Windows version can't figure out how to start/finish the launch process. By the looks of it, the application starts an http daemon on port 5335 and issues a system command to open a web browser at http://127.0.0.1:5335. The form gets sent to...I didn't think to check. Eventually, it ends up n the UserLand servers but I don't know whether it's routed through the desktop application and sent out as an XML-RPC request first. Then the mothership sends back an usernumber which is used to trigger the instantiation of user.radio.prefs table. I wonder what would happen if I just exported the table out of one copy of Radio and in to another. Could it do syncing and keep track of who was on first in tandem? What about file locking? Anyway, if the application can't start the initial server it just sits there and the only feedback you get is Installing tools... When it "just worked" this morning, I thought maybe there had been a timeout problem because the mothership was being hammered, after the release, but it's the same old thing this morning.

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N.Y. Times : Consuming Rituals of the Suburban Tribe

"I see. For you, soap and stress are connected in some way."

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D.J. Adams : Is Jabber's Chatbot the Command Line of the Future?

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : hangry

The state of anger and blind frustration experienced during prolonged periods of hunger.
ex. Don't get too close to Jason, he hasn't eaten and is very hangry.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : myrmidon

Myrmidon \Myr"mi*don\, n. [L. Myrmidones, Gr. ?, pl.] 1. One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war. 2. A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc. --Thackeray. With unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed forward. --W. H. Ainsworth. web1913
myrmidon n 1: a follower who carries out orders without question 2: (Greek mythology) a member of the warriors who followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy [syn: {Myrmidon}] wn
MYRMIDON, n. A follower of Achilles -- particularly when he didn't lead. devils

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